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Tiktok is a social media platform that is one of the world's most popular mobile applications. Previous research suggests that consuming short form content on Tiktok can affect users' health and has shown that social media use can be addictive and have negative health consequences for users. Using a systematic research review with Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a theoretical framework, we examine what previous research has identified regarding the consequences on the user's health from short form content through TikTok use. Through a thematic analysis, we have found six main themes that we put in relation to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The results show that the effects on the user's health are mostly negative. Examples of negative effects on the user's health are excessive, problematic or addictive use, which in turn leads to depression, anxiety, stress, impaired sleep quality and negative effects on the user's learning processes. We were also able to identify positive effects on the user's health, such as reduced stress and anxiety, a sense of community and belonging, and a more fulfilling social life. Based on our findings, we can conclude that TikTok usually does not have negative effects from short term use, but that excessive, problematic and addictive use often leads to negative consequences on the user's health.

This study aims to examine the presence of the Swedish news agency SVT Nyheter on the social media platform TikTok. The platform is relatively new and was not originally designed for news but with time more and more news agencies have started to share their content on TikTok. SVT Nyheter has been active on the platform since November 2022. This study examines all of SVT Nyheters posts since their first one on November 18 2022 to November 18 2023. Previous research on TikTok, and specifically news on TikTok, has mainly looked at a numerous amount of news agencies. The research has shown that many of the news agencies adapts to the logic of TikTok and that working with storytelling on TikTok can foster creativity. This study uses a quantitative content analysis to establish what kind of news SVT Nyheter publishes on TikTok, how they work with the logic of TikTok and how their publishing on TikTok has changed over time, from November 2022 to November 2023. The material consists of 571 TikToks posted by SVT Nyheter. To help interpret the findings the study used theories on media logic and social media logic, the agenda-setting theory as well as theories on news values. The result of this research shows that SVT Nyheter mainly publishes soft news and the top subject of their news is “lifestyle” as well as “crime”. Furthermore the study found that SVT Nyheter in many ways adapted to the logic of TikTok in terms of using subtitles and music in a majority of the videos as well as keeping their videos short. Findings that contradict that SVT Nyheter worked in line with the logic of TikTok is that they did not ask related questions to their audience to try and engage comments, likes or shares. Regarding how their publishing has changed over time the study found that they were relatively consistent in number of videos per month and the most common subjects of news were unchanging. However the study showed that the usage of music decreased over the year, as did the number of hard news.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how cultural symbols are influenced during their remediation to social media platforms. As a case to explore this, this study delves into an examination of the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual art tradition to the social media platform TikTok. This thesis aims to explore the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual arts tradition to the social media platform TikTok. TikTok has rapidly increased in popularity in recent years, boasting over one billion international users. TikTok's short-form video-sharing platform allows users to sample content from various mediums (such as art and film) and adapt it to the platform. This relationship between content curation and user engagement highlights the importance of exploring Femme Fatale's remediation process on TikTok, mainly how content from the visual arts tradition is portrayed on the platform. This will be achieved by utilizing a feminist perspective, exploring how the remediation process impacts gender role stereotypes and power dynamics within the Femme Fatale archetype. The study will employ remediation as a theoretical and analytical framework. Furthermore, to incorporate the feminist perspective, the concepts of male gaze and performativity will be embedded in the analysis. Thirty TikToks were sourced for analysis and explored through the framework of remediation, the concept of male gaze, and the concept of performativity. The study concludes that the remediation of the Femme Fatale results in a loss of original narrative. The research highlights how TikTok’s participatory culture enables the ongoing performance of the Femme Fatale. Moreover, the majority of the content on the platform reveals a narrative of the Femme Fatale through surface-level aesthetics, allowing for its commodification, which emphasizes visual appeal over in-depth narrative, aligning with traditional tropes found in previous mediums. The study contributes to a further understanding of how the remediation process can influence cultural symbols previously embedded in the tradition of visual arts through social media platforms' medium-specific demands on content creation.

In this essay, the concept of online and fourth wave feminism is enhanced through a study of the TikTok-trend #servingcvnt (serving cunt). This study builds on the engagement of contemporary forms of feminist culture with the ever changing dynamic of social media platforms. It offers insight into the otherwise inscrutable world of a TikTok subculture and discloses the mechanisms and practices behind the culturally tinged feminism taking place within it. Combining Muted Group Theory and the conceptual framework of recent feminist media studies, the process of reclaiming is explained and analyzed in terms of feminist humor and shamelessness as resistance tactics. The analysis uses material collected through digital ethnography, encoded through content analysis, that results in detailed studies of video material as well as a portrayal of the digital environment. The study showcases a digital environment tainted by feminine confidence, solidarity and a mentality of shamelessness and humor. #servingcvnt is a subculture constructed by females for females in which they encourage, support and inspire each other to take up space and emancipate from a shaming culture wherein to serve cunt is to reject ideas about how women “should not” be. By constructing their own culture and language, women form a safe sphere in which their own rules and norms apply and reign dominant. This study shows how feminist resistance is injected with a newfound power and possibilities enabled through TikToks media logic and affordances. Hence, this essay should be considered a study of the old phenomenon of reclaiming within a contemporary format of the social media platform TikTok. It is argued that the results and analysis of this study contributes valuable insights to contemporary feminist characteristics, tactics and environments, usable for other future researchers.

Social Network Sites (SNSs) have emerged as a new way of socializing in the internet age with TikTok being the latest platform to emerge as a worldwide phenomenon, particularly popular amongst the youth. However, there is a knowledge gap about how youth in Sweden’s self-presentation is shaped by the design of TikTok. This explorative study aims to examine what possibilities and restrictions TikTok facilitates for self-presentation and what relevance the users’ physical location, more specifically Sweden, has for their content. We conducted qualitative interviews with ten individuals between the ages of 18 and 23, living in Sweden and that have all created videos on the platform. The gathered data, analyzed using thematic analysis, resulted in five different themes, Usage, Functionality/Platform design, Socializing, Personal life and Expressing oneself; each with underlying categories and codes. From the analysis it became apparent that it is not only the design of the platform, but also its use in relation to other SNSs which shapes how users present themselves on it. The unique downplay of following friends and family as well as the encouraged use of filters and sounds from other users’ videos result in a distinct freedom of expression as well as video creation based on imitation. We also found that the platform seems to offer easy accessible tools for creative exploration without the imposed expectation of posting publicly. These findings show that youths in Sweden have a profound understanding and awareness of how SNSs can be utilized regarding self-presentation in daily life.

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This thesis researches users’ motivations for using TikTok, their experience with the personalized algorithm and the effect it has on their subjective well-being. The study is of qualitative character containing 19 questionnaire responses and qualitative interviews with five participants that use TikTok to some extent. The choice of participants was made according to convenience sampling and snowball selection where the results have been analyzed through qualitative content analysis. The literature review resulted in three themes, (1) Motivations for using TikTok, (2) TikTok’s personalized algorithm and its effects, (3) TikTok’s effect on users’ well-being. The results show that the motivation is a key part in users’ engagement with TikTok. Users’ motivations can be to seek entertainment, enjoyment, or inspiration for hobbies where the algorithm responds and analyzes the motivations, in turn the algorithm reinforcesthis in users’ consumption patterns which can result in positive or negative consequences. Their well-being can either increase due to being able to fill up time or entertain themselves, but it can also result in feelings of envy or dissatisfaction with their appearance or looks. These conclusions contribute to the body of research related to social media's effect on their users. It shows the crucial need for future investigation and research of user’s motivations, their experience and effect from the personalized algorithm, and the consequences that the use of digital platforms like TikTok can have on their well-being.

TikTok a Chinese-based social media application, in the last five years has reached global success. It became the first non-American application to reach such massive popularity. This has sparked controversy in the US. Recent studies have highlighted the benefits and disadvantages of this social media app. This thesis goes further and explore the debate regarding a foreign social media, by analyzing the discussion surrounding TikTok in the US through the lens of securitization and riskification. Securitization is a theory developed by the Copenhagen’s school and the latter is a theory developed by Olaf Corry. Both have been adapted in this study to create a specific analytical framework. A case study coupled with a qualitative content analysis has been the method used to analyze political statements, news articles, and reports to be able to answer the research questions. This study finds that the political debate surrounding TikTok in the US presents more riskification’s elements than securitization’s ones. Specifically, the application has been considered more a risk than a threat to national security. The research paper concludes with a discussion and interpretation of the risk posed by the application, in which banning the application is not the solution but finding a more comprehensive legal framework for data privacy and security.

Denna studie handlar om Andrew Tates uttalanden på TikTok och vilka ideer han sprider om män och kvinnor. Syftet var att undersöka Tates idealbild av både män och kvinnor. De teoretiska ramverk som studien är uppbyggd av är femininitets- och maskulinitetsteorier, samt en socialkonstruktionistisk idetradition. För att få en djupare bild av Tates uttalanden har både en tematisk- och DHA analys utförts. Genom den tematiska analysen kunde orden och meningarna brytas ner i teman som visade på tydliga mönster i Tates uttalanden om män och kvinnor och vad han ansåg vara maskulint respektive feminint. DHA analysen möjliggjorde en djupare analys av vilka värden Tate tillsätter män och kvinnor samt hur diskursen byggs upp. Resultatet av den tematiska analysen utmynnade i fyra huvudteman. Dessa var misogyni, mansideal, kvinnoideal, könsroller och Tate försöker visa medkänsla för kvinnor. Resultaten av DHA analysen påvisar att Tate tycker det är viktigt att skilja på könen och gör detta genom att belysa skillnaderna på män och kvinnor.